MUSKEGON, MI – After nearly 30 years, a man serving life in prison for his role in a brutal drug-related slaying will one day have a chance at freedom.

William Vincon Madison was 18 years old in 1997 when he and two others killed their former friend, 19-year-old Tawone Love.

A Muskegon County jury later convicted Madison of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.

Madison, now 46, was back in a Muskegon County courtroom on Thursday, Aug. 28, because of a 2022 decision by the Michigan Supreme Court that found it unconstitutional to sentence 18-year-old offenders to prison without the possibility of parole.

The decision was made retroactive, and judges are now resentencing those offenders. Madison was the first defendant in Muskegon County to be re

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